If you been poking around in our K12 courses lately, you might have noticed the many new ones that have been popping up! Our über-experienced K12 Course Designers have been working hard in tandem with our Content Team. And today, we are featuring one of the fruits of our labor: K12MATHSTATS: Advanced Statistics! This AP®-style course brings together […]
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This week, we chatted with Dr. Virginia Gray, one of our cool K12MATH Course Designers. Hello Dr. Gray! Thank you for joining us. Let’s start off with our first question: What work have you done with the Saylor Foundation? I am developing and writing a Precalculus I course. Soon to become Cool, our K12MATH011 Precalculus course […]
We’ve had psychology courses on our site for a long time, much to the chagrin of sociology partisans, but the latter got a seat at the table back in January when we introduced SOC101 to everyone. Today, SOC101: Introduction to Sociology arrives on our iTunes U channel. A few things set this course apart: […]
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We made it to the weekend! It was an…interesting…week for the staff here at Saylor.org HQ as we battled first a relentless D.C. heatwave and then a network implosion. Half of our air conditioning gave up on us, driving staff to our upstairs digs — imagine when the best place to be on a day with […]
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[On July 1st, interest rates on U.S. federally-subsidized student loans doubled. The event was a re-hash of a similar drama last year in which a rate hike was averted by Congressional action. Discussions of alternative systems are back in fashion, such as the income-based repayment models used in Australia, Britain, and — maybe — Oregon. […]